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Undergraduate courseBachelor of Health Sciences (Paramedic)FAST FACTSTaught on-campus at Flinders. Available to Australian and international students. Course length: The course requires three years of full-time study or the equivalent part-time. Conversion pathway and graduate entry also available. [see below] Prerequisites: There are no prerequisites and no knowledge is assumed. SATAC Code: 214191 [For Australian students] WHY PARAMEDIC STUDIES?A specialised Paramedic stream is offered within the Bachelor of Health Sciences as a conversion course for people with existing paramedic qualifications and as a direct-entry program for anyone seeking a career as an paramedic officer, including school leavers.The introduction of a broad-based program at university level is part of a move to ensure that all paramedic officers have the skills, knowledge and attitudes to enable them to provide emergency pre-hospital care of a sophisticated nature and ensure seamless care from site to hospital. The objective of the program is to ensure that the community receives optimum care in health emergencies from paramedic officers able to manage all situations in a manner consistent with best practice. Such an innovative approach to pre-hospital care has the support of hospitals and the medical profession. CONVERSION PATHWAY
GRADUATE-ENTRY
WHAT JOBS WILL I GET?Graduates are eligible to apply for employment as a paramedic with the SA Ambulance Service and ambulance services in other States of Australia as a paramedic, communications officer and call taker.To find out more about the jobs this degree can lead to, go to the Your Career section of our graduate careers website. WHAT WILL I STUDY?In all three years of the course you'll study Health Sciences core topics plus topics specific to the Paramedic stream.The core topics comprise a health major and include: Interpersonal Skills in Health Care; Critical Thinking in Health Care; Legal/Ethical Aspects of Health Care; Human Bioscience; Health Care Systems and Delivery; Society and Health: Sociology and Epidemiology; and Information Technology. The topics offered in the paramedic major provide the opportunity to develop the necessary knowledge, skills and judgement to demonstrate the competencies required to deliver pre-hospital emergency care in a professional manner. They include: Clinical Concepts of Ambulance Practice; Applied Physics and Ambulance Technology; Pathophysiology of Body Systems (including the central nervous system, cardiovascular system and respiratory systems); Professional Issues; Applied Pharmacology; and Public Health and Epidemiology. The full program of study is set out in the Course rule and topic descriptions for this degree. ENTRY REQUIREMENTS:
Year 12 applicants must have qualified for SACE and obtained Recorded Achievement in at least five two-unit SACE Stage 2 subjects. Included among the five must be four HESS General subjects.
Non-school leavers from various backgrounds, such as tertiary transfers, TAFE, Special Tertiary Admissions Test (STAT) and other access schemes are eligible to apply. There are no prerequisites.
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